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Thursday, January 30, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for January 30, 2020

Jan 30, 2020

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Hummer officially returns as an EV with 1,000 hp in Super Bowl ad

Hummer , the iconic, controversial and long-dead truck and SUV brand, returns this Sunday in a Super Bowl ad that previews its comeback under the GMC brand. General Motors announced the move and previewed the vehicle with a series of clips (below) Thu…

Kia blind spot monitoring and crash avoidance wins 2020 Autoblog Technology of the Year Award

The Autoblog 2020 Technology of the Year winner is Kia's blind spot system. We judged the combination of blind spot monitoring and active blind spot crash avoidance on the 2020 Kia Telluride as the best in the industry. The Kia blind spot system won…

[VIDEO] Timelapse video: Watch heavy machinery build a coronavirus hospital in days

The construction sites of the two hospitals with around-the-clock livestreaming, broadcast by China Media Group's social media video platform Yangshipin, have received over 50 million hits from Chinese netizens, calling themselves "volunteer supervis…

2020 Volvo S60 T8 Long-Term Introduction | We plug in with an electrified Swedish sedan

A 2020 Volvo S60 T8 is joining the Autoblog long-term vehicle test fleet. Now that the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid has officially made its exit, we felt it was time for another long-term tester with a plug. Enter our Crystal White Metallic sedan in Insc…

Record sales push Tesla to 2nd straight quarterly profit

DETROIT — Record electric vehicle sales in the fourth quarter helped to push Tesla Inc. to its second-straight quarterly profit, giving bullish investors optimism that sustained black ink lies ahead. The Palo Alto, California, company said it made a…

Toyota RAV4 passes moose test after electronic stability upgrade

Last year, Swedish publication Teknikens Värld gave the Toyota RAV4 a failing grade after it showed video of it performing poorly on the so-called moose test. That's a test that puts a vehicle under maximum load through an abrupt S-shaped course corr…

Lincoln confirms the MKZ only has a few months left to live

Lincoln confirmed it will put the MKZ out to pasture in 2020. The sedan is based on the Ford Fusion, which is also scheduled to retire in the coming months as the company pivots towards high-riding models. Introduced at the 2012 New York Auto Show, …

[VIDEO] More Honda E details, video, photos emerge, and it's still cute

Thanks to Honda hosting media in Valencia, Spain, for first drives of the Honda E, we have more details on the city car we're condemned to lust after from afar. The power and range specs we already knew — either 134 horsepower from the base model, or…

Japan issues arrest warrants for Ghosn, Americans suspected of helping him escape

This security camera image shows men identified as Michael Taylor and George Zayek during their checkpoint processing at the Istanbul Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. They are suspected of smuggling Carlos Ghosn out of Japan to Lebanon via Istanbul. &nb…

2020 Mini Cooper SE First Drive | Little range, big fun

The all-electric Mini Cooper has been a long time coming. The company's first step toward electrics began in 2008 with the experimental Mini E , a car that used a powertrain co-developed with an outside company and that had some major compromises. It …

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

What You Missed | Your Autoblog Daily Digest for January 29, 2020

Jan 29, 2020

Top Stories of the Day

Pristine 21k-mile 1971 Datsun 240Z pulls in $310,000

A little over a week ago, we told you to check out this spectacular, 21,000-mile 1971 Datsun 240Z on Bring a Trailer . Your chance has come and gone, but the good news is you probably couldn't have afforded it anyways. This gorgeous green coupe now ap…

Ram 1500 TRX spied hiding production body work under camouflage

We've seen the upcoming Ram 1500 TRX pickup truck a few times with its Raptor-rivaling suspension and Hellcat-derived powertrain . Those past mules have all worn plain Ram bodies , sometimes with cheap bolt-on fender flares. This time, one of our spy p…

Next-gen 2021 Kia Sorento shown inside and out in leaked pics

We've seen spy shots of the next-generation Kia Sorento in both heavily camouflaged form and running laps around the Nürburgring (!), where it was wearing a more form-fitting wrap. Today, Instagram user CocheSpias leaked photos of the redesigned mids…

2020 Nissan Titan and Titan XD get price hikes, improvements

The 2020 Nissan Titan and Titan XD have gone through some changes for the new model year. You can read all about our impressions of the refreshed Titan here , and all the new details on the Titan XD here — we're about to drive the XD, so look out for …

Lincoln announces its first EV will be built on Rivian platform

Confirming months of reports , Lincoln announced that its first fully electric vehicle will be based on the Rivian electric platform. That platform will underpin the Rivian R1T pickup truck and R1S SUV . Lincoln didn't specify whether this EV will be …

Alpine A110 SportsX is a lifted rally-inspired design exercise that's ready to ski

It's winter sports season in many parts of the world, and auto manufacturers are using that as an excuse to make some pretty fun specialty versions of their vehicles. Only hours apart, Bentley unveiled an adventure-ready Continental GT , while Alpine …

2021 GMC Canyon AT4 will offer an Off-Road Performance Edition Package

In March 2018, GMC announced the 2019 Sierra 1500 AT4 , the alphanumeric finale denoting heightened ridge height and off-road capability. In December of that year, GMC took the AT4 further, creating an Off-Road Performance Package that boosted horsepo…

Genesis GV80: more details on the brand's new SUV

MIAMI — Genesis unveiled the GV80 , its first SUV, in its home market of South Korea earlier this month. Now the GV80 has made its first appearance in the United States, with a splashy party in Miami and a new TV commercial that will air during Super …

Kia's Australian arm wants a Toyota Land Cruiser-like SUV

The team in charge of Kia's Australian division is asking the company's top brass for a rugged, body-on-frame SUV with Toyota Land Cruiser -like off-road capacity. The model could arrive quickly if it's approved for production. "We need probably one …

2020 Subaru Ascent Review & Buying Guide | A family adventure

The 2020 Subaru Ascent is a full-size, three-row crossover that caters to the Subaru faithful, while welcoming new customers whose larger families might have precluded them from something with just two rows. It looks a lot like a bigger version of th…